A third of direct aid to companies and the self-employed affected by the pandemic remains ungraded

The Government approved last March a decree by which

were transferred to the autonomies for

to alleviate the effects of the economic crisis caused by the covid. A year later, the Executive of Pedro Sánchez will find that

. The requirements imposed and the

in processing, transferred to the communities, have lowered the level of execution of these funds, which has barely reached

. In others, it has not even reached 50% of the amounts assigned in the distribution.

This is the case of the

, where the so-called

have distributed a total

only

of the 647 million that the Government contributed. Three calls have been necessary for the execution of the plan, as well as the hiring of the public company Tragsa to be able to manage them.

Between the first and the second, 235 million were granted and in the last one in December, with the relaxation of some requirement made by the Treasury in September, 76.5 million more. Something that the Minister of Finance,

, considers

hence he has requested that the deadline to request these aid be extended until June 30. For Soler, one of the reasons why there are no more beneficiaries is the existence of "

", which the Valencian Community tried to make as flexible as possible within the state framework.

These grants were conceived only for companies, with a maximum of 200,000 euros, and self-employed, up to 3,000, from sectors such as

that had not had losses in 2019 and whose turnover would have fallen by 30% as a direct consequence of the pandemic.

with the Social Security or the Treasury, one of the main complaints of the self-employed. Its purpose was mainly suppliers, supplies, rentals or loans. After the autonomies expanded the sectors, the criterion of not having had losses in 2019 disappeared and fixed expenses were allowed. Still,

What happened in the Valencian Community is no exception.

Autonomies such as

maintain a level of execution of these funds below half.

Also

, which has launched four calls to grant the 234.4 million granted by the Government and has barely managed 6,000 applications that do not cover 50%.

Balearic and Canary Islands, the exception

The Community of Madrid, Catalonia and La Rioja

exceed

, while

remains at

, with 600 million disbursed of the 1,109 granted.

The exceptions have been the

.

Due to its particular link with tourism, the Government reserved 2,000 of the 7,000 million to these two autonomies and extended the aid that employers could request to five million euros.

In the case of the

,

allocated have reached those affected who requested the aid.

, which received 1,144, is

In addition to the strict requirements and the administrative bureaucracy of the procedure, one of the main problems that these aids have presented due to their design is that they were designed

, with which they were excluded all those who made an effort during the worst months of the pandemic to meet their financial obligations.

The aid could only be used to pay

and fixed costs pending payment that would have accrued between March

and May

This nuance, which came to light when the regulation was published, led many communities to

and to warn already then, in April of last year, that

In addition to the fact that, due to its wording, the rule seemed

in order to access the aid, some autonomies warned.

"The purpose of the aid seems to be aimed at creditors getting paid, in a way that

, favoring those that have not done so and maintain the debt. Future payment requirements and priority, in addition to being complex, are difficult to understand and justify, "denounced the

.

The

used to distribute aid funds among the autonomous communities was also the subject of controversy, since the Government took into account the impact of the pandemic on the

of the communities in 66%, and in 33 %

% the evolution of

and, specifically, of

. The situation that the productive fabric of each community was going through, to which the aid would ultimately be directed, was not assessed.

According to this criterion for the distribution of 5,000 million,

was the community that received the largest amount of funds (1,109 million), followed by

(993 million), the

and the

(both with 647 million) .

The autonomous cities of

(13 and 12 million, respectively),

(32 million),

(55 million) and the

(67 million) received the least.

The 2,000 million for the archipelagos were distributed in such a way that the

received 855 million and the

1,144 million.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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